Gas-burner



A. 0. GATES.

Gas Burner. M No. 17,674. Patented June 30, 1857.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASA D. GATES, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.

GAS-BURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 17,674, dated June 30, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ASA D. GATEs, of Binghamton, in the county ofBroome, in the State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Modeof Burning Gas Through a Conical Cylinder or Tube; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters ofreference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a gas burner in sucha manner as to produce a better light with less gas than those now incommon use.

By placing one of my conical cylinders or tubes on an ordinary four-footgas burner it will produce as much light as a six-foot burner will doWithout it. Therefore I am saying one-third of the gas and at the sametime getting as much light as from a six-foot burner. My burner is alsomore simple in its construction and can be ut in any common burner;therefore can e furnished to consumers at much less than other patentburners.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure 1 is a plan; letter A the burner in the form of a thimble andfitted loosely on the common burner, as represented in Fig. 3, letter E.This thimble 1s fitted on to the standard E without the ordinary processof screwing it to its place. The chamber for the gas in this burner, asrepresented in Fig. 2, letter C, is much larger than in the ordinaryburner, so that the gas is impregnated in a manner with atmos heric airbefore combustion. By placing tiis thimble upon the ordinary burner Whenburning, you will find it will increase the intensity of the light fullone-third Without additional burning of gas.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Attaching to the top of or slipping over the usual burner the conical orcylindrical supplemental chamber burner, as and for the purposes hereinset forth.

ASA D. GATES.

Witnesses B. N. Looms, D. D. GREGORY.

